Burger Farm (FHSM VP-15575 locality): Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Turonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Polycotylidae
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Trinacromerum bentonianum
Cragin 1888
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1 individual | |||||||||
FHSM VP-15575 (four dorsal vertebrae) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Lincoln County |
Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 98.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.7° North, 63.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Turonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Greenhorn Limestone | Member: | Pfeifer |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "The block containing the specimen is undoubtedly from the Fencepost limestone bed, Greenhorn Formation" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 46). This bed is within the Pfeifer Member. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: FHSM collection |
Metadata
Database number: | 117811 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-09-27 01:47:21 | Last modified: | 2012-01-31 16:33:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-27 01:47:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
37870. | B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler] |